The Brockton Mystery of Two Missing Children
A Brockton mother Mary Ball recalls a blank of 24 hours after taking her two children from Winthrop school. The fire at their Holbrook avenue home, suspicions of foul play, and a rash of detectives and searches follow as physicians debate if shock could restore her memory and reveal the children’s fate.
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Brockton
Masa
New England
Mary R. C. Ball
John Ball
Holbrook Avenue
Winthrop School
Mary Grace Ball
Thomas Ball
Mary Ball
Asylum For the
Taunton
Mass
Avon
Nowise
Goss
Archibald
Sir Gilbert Parker
Booth Parkington
Quesnay
Allennats
Mrs. Ball
Tallest lightkeeper heir towers over coast by census
Fabius Evans Simpson, 23, assistant keeper of Lazzaretto light near Baltimore, is described as six feet six inches tall and “built on the concertina plan.” He hails from a lighthouse family long active in North Carolina and elsewhere, plans to remain in service, and shares a tale of an attempted full length portrait split into sections.
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North Carolina
Hatteras
Fabius Evans Simpson
Lazzaretto Lighthouse
Baltimore Harbor
Maine
Rio Grande
Lighthouse Service
Alpheus W. Simpson
North River Nght
A. J. Simpson
Southwest Point Nght
Young Simpson
All Know This Man Minutes Thief Of Industry Portrayed
A long prose piece frames a character called the time thief who steals not watches but minutes hours and days from busy workers. It depicts his cheerful intrusion at the busiest office moments and the habitual, unproductive interruptions he causes. It ends with a vignette about a political aspirant approached by a shabby region delegation seeking an after-dinner speech.
Making Good. A Morbid Quip Quoted by Houston Post
A fragment quotes a grim exchange about suicide, noting a line that would prove a parent's claim. The Houston Post records a macabre remark tied to a character seen as capable of such an act, reflecting era tone and sensational phrasing.
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Houston Post
In New York His Cigar Was a Very Bad One
A cafe encounter in New York finds a man asking a woman if she smokes and her reply “Only in self defense”. The brief dialogue hints at mood and social tension in a city scene.
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New York
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